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Engadget Podcast 169 - 10.31.2009
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
Kent @ Aug 2nd 2007 9:19AM
Is everyone crazy regarding the digital picture frames???
They are a very cool idea and I would love to have one, but they all lack the most crucial solution: E-ink!! (or similar technology)
Since, who wants a photo frame that :
- Works like a lamp? "honey can you turn off the pictures, I can't sleep..."
- Needs cables?? "hmmm... nice place for a picture, but how are we getting a cable there?"
- Or, have to be turned on/off regularly to save batteries... should you now "turn on" your "paintings" when you have visitors etc? come on...
- Pulls electricity constantly! in these days... after all a normal LCD/TFT pulls like a lamp (albeit low-energy), would you leave them on 24/7??
All these things could be solved very nicely with E-ink type of technology, why haven't anyone done something like that yet?
Probably too expensive yet I guess... but, until that happens this whole digital picture frame thing is pretty useless I think..
Tony @ Aug 2nd 2007 9:27AM
Damn, you make some bl00dy good points! I was all excited about finally seeing a "high-res" and cheap photo frame, but I don't want it any more after reading your comment!
Z @ Aug 2nd 2007 12:46PM
I know E-Ink has been shown in full color - I think up to 12-bit color depths if I'm not mistaken (maybe more by now), but I'm not certain how large they can make those screens. You're right, though... they *should* go this direction.
Until then, these photo frames need to have settings embedded into the OS that allows a person to program them to shut off automatically at a certain hour, and back on at another. I've only seen one frame that can do that, and virtually all the rest don't.
Cal @ Aug 2nd 2007 3:34PM
I know exactly how you get rid of these problems, you put these digital images onto some kind of material which doesn't emit light or drain power, like paper, but maybe make it glossy, then put this into a frame...